Does P ever cameo in your dreams?

Mark Thibodeau jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 19:44:08 CDT 2015


By frequently, I mean about half a dozen times.

And by spectacularly, I mean memorably.

Not sexy-time.

Ahem.

J

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I haven't had P visit me in my dreams (I have a very active and deeply
> remembered dream life). I have, however, been visited by my two other
> personal heroes, Frank Zappa (rarely), and Stanley Kubrick (frequently and
> spectacularly). Won't bore y'all with the deets, but damn, those were some
> great dreams for me! :-)
>
> J
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:29 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Obscurely, in mine.  Mid-script I finally got to use a three-year-old
>> dream.  It was one of those mind's-eye close-ups, the silent adoration of
>> an imaginary object.
>>
>> Cut & pasted for your genial indifference, the object:
>>
>> "Shrugging Zophiel closed & turned the hardback on its face, its spine
>> facing away from Nima.  Not quick enough to escape her notice.  The cover
>> had a photograph of what appeared to be Italian rowhouses in violet &
>> green-- naturally --as well as peach & teal.  Leaning across the row,
>> drooling fresh paint, a garish, jittery caricature of Mickey Mouse, frozen
>> in mid-wave. Left of Mickey, the title & author: *The Imperatores*, by
>> Thomas Pynchon."
>>
>> Using it b/c the plot calls for a nonexistent novel.  This seemed to
>> suit.  Will certainly be fun to design & illustrate, though god knows
>> choosing a font will lead to many a sleepless night...
>>
>
>
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